Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

The investiture controversy was conflict between church and state. Those days, Henry was most powerful king in Europe, but Gregory willing to give him problems and wanted to dominate the state. Gregory was threatened the king, but the problem was that he was without any military power and this made him vulnerable. At that time bishops were important political figure and the main issue of conflict was bishop’s appointment because the Pope and the king both wanted to make bishops in their favor. Moreover

Hotspur vs. Harry in Henry IV   At the beginning of the play it seems that the chief rebel, Hotspur, is in dispute with the King but as the play progresses we find that the main contest is between Hotspur and Hal, the King's son. At first thought, Hotspur seems to be the easy winner, for all Hal does is spend his time with his friends gallivanting around, stealing and drinking.   Hotspur, on the other hand, has returned from a battle in which he defeated the

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On Christmas day of 800 A.D., Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor. This pivotal, but not necessarily wanted, moment in the history of the Catholic Church set up a precedent for very strong relations between the Holy Roman Emperor and the papacy. During the eleventh century, with the Holy Roman Emperor ruled by Henry IV, relations with the papacy came to a front over several disagreement between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. Their arguments mainly focused on the power that each

This source is an excerpt from a letter from Pope Innocent IV to King henry III of England on the 23rd January 1245, shortly after the sacking of Jerusalem by Khwarezmian forces in the same year. When a Pope traditionally launches a crusade it is accompanied with excitatoria, formal letters appealing to nobility and kings for contribution to the forthcoming campaign. Although this letter was intended for the English king, Peter Jackson implies that the missing letter to King Louis IX would have almost

created significant tension between the Papacy and Europe’s kings. These tensions manifested themselves in the Investiture Crisis of the late-11th and early-12th centuries, a quarrel between Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII over the appointment of bishops. This controversy came to a head when Henry used his army to force Gregory VII out of Rome to install his anti-Pope Clement III. While the Concordat of Worms resolved the crisis, the impacts of the Investiture Crisis continued to affect

Europe, being centrally a political struggle. This conflict would result in changes to the political world in Europe that would last even to the present day. The two sides of the investiture controversy consisted of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and Pope Gregory VII. Henry IV and his supporters held a “royalist” state view, while Gregory VII and his supporters were on the “papalist” church side of the conflict. Both sides had strong visions of the right order of the world, with the largest difference

In 1054, Henry IV was crowned king of Germany. Later, in 1084, he became the Holy Roman emperor as well. While he and Pope Gregory VII reigned, the conflict between monarchs and the Church erupted. Henry IV, as the emperor, presented bishops with the ring and staff that symbolized their office. But Pope Gregory banned him from doing it, which in turn made him angry. In 1076, Gregory excommunicated Henry, which freed his subjects from their allegiance to him. Afterwards, in 1077, he presented himself

challenge thrown out by Gregory VII forced the emperors to seek new foundations for their position. Gregory’s great opponent, the emperor Henry IV, had still asserted the traditional rights of his father. His successors in the 12th century, Henry V (1106–25), Lothar II (1125–37), Frederick I Barbarossa (1152–90), and Henry VI (1190–97), shifted their ground. To counter the arguments of church lawyers they grasped the weapons provided by the revival of Roman law. A new and more exalted conception of the

27 statements of power under the Catholic Church, and it is the first time that a document grants the pope power to depose an Emperor. The document most likely written, or influenced, by Pope Gregory VII came in wake of the lay investiture controversy between the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. Lay investiture is when lay, or worldly, kings and emperors invests in bishops, appointing them to bishops of the area in which they rule. It was extremely common for the bishops that were